Dr Melaku Desta
LL.B., LL.M., PhD
Reader in International Economic Law and Director of PhD programme
Speeches and Conference Papers
- "Regional integration in Africa: the agriculture and commodities dimension", presented at the European Conference on African Studies, (The Nordic Africa Institute, Upsala, Sweden, June 2011);
- "GATT/WTO Law and international standards: an example of soft law instruments hardening up?", presented to the ILA Study Group on the Role of Soft Law in International Investment Law at the University of Vienna, (4 March 2011);
- "International Trade in Biofuels: Legal and Policy Issues", presented at the World Trade Forum 2007: International Trade on a Warming Globe (2007) organized by the WTI;
- the "Geneva Dialogue" organized by the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD) on "Exploring Synergies between Energy Standards, Climate Change and International Trade" (2006);
- International Law Association British Branch 2005 Spring Conference on "Regional Trade Agreements and the WTO Legal System" (Royal Society of Edinburgh, 27-28 May 2005), presenting on "EU-ACP Economic Partnership Agreements and the Question of WTO Compatibility"
- Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) Conference on "Sustainable Development in the WTO", 23 February 2004, presenting on "Agriculture in the Development Round"
- "International Trade and Agricultural Reform", panelist at the annual meeting of the British Institute for International and Comparative Law (BIICL, London), 13 June 2003
- Academy of European Law conference on "Legal Issues of Agricultural Trade" (Brussels 22 October 2003) presenting on "The Agreement on Agriculture, GATT and the Modalities".
- Institute ofArab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter, conference on The Arab Countries and the World Trade Organisation, (23-25 September 2002) presenting on "OPEC and the WTO"
- Heinrich Böll Foundation workshop on International Trade, Commodities and Services (organized as part of the NGO-Forum of the UN LDC III Conference, Brussels May 14-20, 2001), presenting on "Food Security and International Trade Law: Issues of Particular Concern for the LDCs"
- Institute of Comparative Law, University of Osnabruck, Germany, "Law as an Instrument of Social Change: Lessons from Rene David's Civil Code of Ethiopia", paper presented at the invitation of the Institute on 29 June 2000
